I have implemented FBA on an web application which has a custom login page. The custom page doesn't let the users login via windows authentication even though it is enabled from central admin. Seems ...

Short version of question - Does the index crawl through the content of uploaded documents, and if so, can that be turned off?
Longer version - I have a site consisting entirely of uploaded PDFs of ...

I've been trying to add ows__vti_ItemHoldRecordStatus as a crawled property to allow a search of held documents. (It appears to correspond to the hold status of an SPListItem.) I can successfully add ...

We have a 2013 farm that is crawling a 2007 content source with a lot of outdated content in it. We'd really like to exclude items from the crawl based on their last modified date, but we're having ...

We have a legacy records management system that we want to index in SharePoint 2013. We just want to index it and leave the documents where they are.
The records management system of course has a ACL ...

I have configured and run sample code taken from the MSDN website for a custom BCS indexing connector sample for Sharepoint 2013:
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SharePoint-2013-MyFileConne-79d2ea26
...

I created a custom content type that includes a custom site column "Owner" of type "Person or Group". Now i need the accountname/login name (for exc. domain\usera) as a crawled property to include it ...

I have an on-premise SP 2013 farm that I will be using to host a Internet (public-facing/anonymous) site. I'm using managed navigation with term-driven pages. Three of my navigation links point to one ...

It's obvious. Resetting the search index clears all search results. It does however not remove all crawled and managed properties. SharePoint (2013) remembers them forever.
The only option to remove ...

we have a SP2007 search service attached to our SP2007 server used to create and store some PDFs.
Every night an incremental crawl job starts, and everything works fine... but some night ago (4 sept ...

The requirements:
exclude any subfolders in a document library on search results.
Crawling Rules set up in the following order:
https://MySite.*(/.+)*/.*[.].* use regexp checked Include all item in ...

I've been trying to crawl an external site using SharePoint 2010 in which I'm only interested in crawling results for the content stored in various subfolders underneath a root path.
The root path is ...

What's the reason that SharePoint 2013 may process 'If-Modified-Since' header value in an invalid way?
Case:
I have a file A.txt in a list;
I download the file and see the date XXX in Last-Modified ...

I crawl database with FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010. When incremental crawl is running, it is getting the following error for some records. After the first error, SharePoint takes the same ...

Help VERY much appreciated - on the ropes with this one. I started again with new VMs and used all the recipes and the environment is looking fairly clean. But this one is killing me.
Crawl account ...

Warning: Long question, any input is welcome. :-)
Part 1
I'm using SharePoint as a file repository with >100K Lists and >300K documents. (DB is >100GB).
Most of the files are binary, so, I want the ...

The situation is like that - I have two content types with same field (same name and title), I created few pages with those content types and started full crawl, then I created managed property and ...

When I´m looking on my SharePoint 2013 Server with Sysinternals Process Monitor and the Crawl is running, I´m getting lots of access denied messages (Filter applied for access) for the drive with my ...

While Crawling the SharePoint site on different farm, we are getting a warning The URL was permanently moved. (URL redirected to XXXX/pages/xyz/abc.aspx)
And only this page (XXXX/pages/xyz/abc.aspx ) ...

We had to redesign and redeploy our web applications, but we didn't want to loose all the data. So we detached all content databases from applications, removed web applications, recreated properly and ...

SharePoint 2010 search crawl error:
The SharePoint item being crawled returned an error when requesting data from the web service.( Error from SharePoint site: Specified argument was out of the range ...